This week, the students were excited to see their food trucks come together. We experimented with a variety of 3D shapes as we created the trucks from a 2D net. The students had a fantastic time trying our shapes such as cubes, cones and cylinders to finish off their trucks. It was wonderful to see individuals add artistic elements to complete their work. They were very excited to display their creations in The Learning Commons. Next week, we will practice adding and subtracting decimals as we place orders and make change while ordering from the trucks.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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